Company portraits are always very enjoyable for me and I’m always grateful for the opportunity to provide friendly and dignified portraiture for company representation.
As much as I love to work with experienced subjects, working with folk who are less accustomed to being in front of a camera is very rewarding.
Each member of staff at Infobuild were genuinely friendly and lively people, sometimes these characteristics can be a little suppressed when it’s time to shoot their portrait.
I find that acting like a goofball positive interaction is a key element to breaking the ice and encouraging the natural character out of it’s hiding place.
Half the compliment of staff was shot on a balcony facing a large foyer with an extremely high glass roof and the other half of the team was shot looking out onto the foyer form a short corridor.
The corridor portraits couldn’t have been more straight forward with a single SB-800 at 1/4 power with a shoot through umbrella.
For the foyer based frames, I had an SB-28 as a main light with the Lastolite Ezybox 60cm at 1/2 power, the fill light was an SB-800 at 1/8th power and another SB-800 hair/rimlight at 1/4 power. All speedlights were gelled with a half cut of CTO and the white balance was dialled manually to around 4000K.
Both spots were set up and ready to go before the companies meeting ended.
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